A group of researchers has uncovered a system that Instagram and Facebook have been using since September 2024 to collect users’ web browsing history on Android devices
How meta bypasses your phone’s browser security to track you.
Ok, this has got to stop, soon we’ll need separate sound isolated anechoic chambers containing dedicated burner devices for use with specific services online, set up so that we can only interact with them wearing hazmat gear.
The tech giants quest for ever more data about us needs to stop, and the executives who oversee them needs to see consequences beyond the operating budget increasing continously.
We have been told that individually targeted ads are not cost effective, that the tech giants just want to categorize their users in broad categories, yet the tech giants keep trying to collect more and more.
And with all of this information collected on us, we still gets shitty advertising, completely miss targeted.
i just meant who’s their primary customer, really. advertisers aren’t fully divested of surveillance capitalism, obviously, but the fact remains there’s been a shift
They don’t sell the data, the data is their whole business. They use the data to filter people and give their customers a list of targets depending on their customers goals
Ok, this has got to stop, soon we’ll need separate sound isolated anechoic chambers containing dedicated burner devices for use with specific services online, set up so that we can only interact with them wearing hazmat gear.
The tech giants quest for ever more data about us needs to stop, and the executives who oversee them needs to see consequences beyond the operating budget increasing continously.
We have been told that individually targeted ads are not cost effective, that the tech giants just want to categorize their users in broad categories, yet the tech giants keep trying to collect more and more.
And with all of this information collected on us, we still gets shitty advertising, completely miss targeted.
and they’re running out of advertisers to sell that data to so they’re selling it to governments instead
This implies it was ever not for sale to governments.
i just meant who’s their primary customer, really. advertisers aren’t fully divested of surveillance capitalism, obviously, but the fact remains there’s been a shift
They don’t sell the data, the data is their whole business. They use the data to filter people and give their customers a list of targets depending on their customers goals